WOW. it’s taken
almost 2 months to finish telling you all about the final days of our trip?!
That’s just sad. but life is busy so i’ll simply recap the end of our road trip
for you all. we enjoyed one final day with the cousins simply relaxing and
spending time together.
then the next morning
it was time to roll out for home! we stopped in souix center and picked up donna to bring her to deadwood with us. we cruised into South Dakota making a
quick stop at Wall Drug but we had bigger things to see!
we continued on unto
we came to Mt. Rushmore. here we stopped for a bit to view the landmark.
just being normal. don't worry about it
from
there we continued to Deadwood! we stopped by her friends house as they had
gracious opened their home to us for the night before heading into town. we
were treated to a delicious Chinese meal made specially for us before donna
hustled us to where the re-enactment of Wild Bill’s shooting was to take place. tim and derek were the first to volunteer to be part of the re-enactment but
when the gentleman came over to get them, he took brooke, tonka and i instead!
something about better looking? not sure. so i was cast to play the role of
Charlie Rich the man who was unwilling to give up his seat at the table because
he was winning. brooke was the part of the bar owner and tonka was the old
washed up military man who is hit by the bullet in the arm.
we played a rousing
game of go fish as the scene played out and did a great job of trying to chase
down the killer.
after our stunning
performance we moved down to the courthouse to watch the trial of McCall for
killing Wild Bill. now the younger boys were enlisted to be jury members. there
were also various people pulled from the audience to act as witnesses in the trial.
tonka was pulled up
to play the part of a past employer. unfortunately his script was lost and he
had to wing it.
his first question was
“How many years has McCall worked for you?” Tonka answered confidently, “19 years!”
ummmm no. not quite.
after slowly working to the correct length of time {5
months for those who are curious} *ta da* his script was found! however from
there things only got worse for him. he was found out to be Shelby the Snake
Boy! also known to be of an evil nature but not to be tried today.
mom was also pulled
up to be a witness in this trial! the court clerk was quite smitten by her
charming looks!
he even fashioned a paper rose for her and tried to sit next to
her in the audience. but do not worry dad was there to be sure that she was not
stolen by any men missing a few of their teeth.
after the show we had
just enough time to compete with each other on the go-kart track!
tim was spun
around a few times and derek was stuck with the slow kart so everyone passed
him but it was a total blast!
that night we had our
last shower of the trip and a nice warm bed before the last two days home.
the last full day of
driving started at a decent time with everyone rolling out of bed and right
into the rv. we quickly came to Wyoming, only stopping to snap a photo.
then it
was into Montana once again only stopping to snap a photo to round out our
collection of state photos.
we drove all day until we finally came to a stop
for the night at a Jellystone Park themed campground. i’m sure many of you remember
Yogi Bear and this camp certainly loved it!
we enjoyed ice cream and time together on our last night with good ol’
Abner.
LAST DAY of our
adventure was actually quite unadventurous actually. we didn’t even stop to get
out in Idaho and almost missed Washington because we are not conventional in
our state apparently.
instead of having the welcome to Washington sign on the
right side of the road like every other state we entered it was on the *left*
side! luckily we were able to pull off and take a final state photo with Abner.
we made it home at a decent time and quickly cleaned out the rv from our
wonderful trip. johnny had a friend waiting for him on the back door and eric
even came to help.
it felt good to be home but wow did we have a good time on
the road!
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